Tag: Healthcare

Thursday night, we saw the type of error that happens every few years in the NFL... a player, Danny Trevathan, of the Denver Broncos,...

I've recently heard of a scenario in healthcare that I suspect is pretty common, or at least it's not the first time I've heard...

The year is 1981. A Major League Baseball strike interrupts the season. We're in the midst of the Cold War. President Reagan is shot....

As we move into the Labor Day weekend, I need to close some browser tabs that are full of things that I was maybe...

Following up on my previous posts (here and here) on a recent visit to the Northern California Wine Country, I'm going to share a...

One feature of the website for our  Healthcare Kaizen books  has been the ability for people to share an example of a Kaizen improvement...

It's been just over five years since the first edition of my book  Lean Hospitals was released and just over a year since  Healthcare...

I've recently been reading an enjoyable book by Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The practice of Kaizen, of course,...

Last Wednesday, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I gave a webinar for Gemba Academy titled Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement. You can...

You might recall that I interviewed Dr. Joe Guarisco for episode #160 of my podcast series, talking about operations improvement and emergency department patient...

A friend shared this fun video about how to influence hand washing behavior amongst a group of 12 kids. As the introduction points out,...

In hospitals, there's a big emphasis on healthcare professionals always checking TWO patient identifiers to help avoid getting the wrong patient. You might have...